New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-01

Tho sfat,ment also saws that absolute proof in tho
matter furnished by the annual report but that
Will published until next year, by which tnc me
present issue will DO of Importance. In the hope OF
bringing out The facts make the following Offer
etc" Unless the next annual report IA made differ
emily from all preceding reports ii will net show either
the operating expenses net earnings nor charges Dy
months aud therefore it will neither prove nor disprove
tho state nent. But Mr. sykes. vice president oil tho
company on having tho statement shown to him. said :
II those figures pretend t." are asserted TO- represent
the relative earnings of the Northwestern Company
in September. 1897. and September. 1ssG. yon may
characterize them in any language please TO use as
absolutely false"
The Doily Stakeholder tomorrow will print table OF
railroads paying interest bonds and DIVIDENDS on
stocks in month OF November The amount OF bombs
on which will be paid reaches s52i500OOo and
the payments Sl5.Os7.25 S2.557.SjO greater
than tho payments in November. 1850. Tho
stocks on which dividends will be paid
amount to 1878. sos, 500 and the payments
to So Oo7 OF about 81 100000 than the pay
ment for dividends In November. 1896
One of the principal pessmisc cries OF the day Is tho
great decline the price OF steel rails; today wa
spent pleasant hour with one OF the principal makers
search of knowledge We learned that year ago this
time the price for 1887 1885, that now IT
romnally S33i S3i brt that this particular company
the fer orders the quotations: also
that the countrys product of this year will approximate
gentleman expressed It, with the annual requirements
for renewals and additional side tracssge. amounting
100000 tens. he felt uneasness about full
demand for all the country produce
Toiay's stock market indicated that the information
published in this mornings TRIBUNE OF the intentions AMI
plans of the bears" WAS absolutely correct They
tried do all that promised for them but except IN
the Gould railroad stocks they met with no success.
Missouri Pacific en-rgecay attacked AMI its prico
was driven from So the opening. TO Sls ana closed at
S5s the transactions 1t aggregated -, 100 shares
and it the special feature OF the day. OF course
such a decline brings ont less Of long stock
u price Of stock learning 10 per cent"
but the poundin: aud selling down was
done openly by the we'll recognized bear
clique Missouri, Kansas and Texas stock. we'll as the
bonds in for Its share OF depression; II sold from
10 l7sGl74 No less than three attempts were n9dc
to break Western Union ins sympathy with tho other
Could stocks but at 77d77a II rested a rock and it
closed the Saturday evening At times there we're
general the whole market and In those
general assaults ST. Paul and Northwestern made
the powerful battle points Prices yielded slowly and
hard only quic xiv. And yet able
discover the the resstancebnt 1t felt
II not seen Tie final figures show declines from satnr
day generally not exceeding L 4 per cent Tho ind
cstsDs point 10 severance OF community batweon tao
general market and the Could Railroad pruperrs Cor
tainly to-day the weakness In the latter had te effect
value. generally. despite tho strenuous Efforts 10
make u effective. The market closed steady.
Government bonds dun and unchanged in the
biddnss. while holders less firm in their askngs.
Annexed are the closing quotations: